The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Thursday joined a growing group of organizations critiquing the United States’ reimplementation of its Migration Protection Protocols (MPP) program, also known as “Remain in Mexico.” The Biden Administration restarted the Trump-era MPP this month after a Supreme Court order held that President Biden’s cancellation of the program [...]

India news organizations Thursday protested restrictions on entry and access to the Parliament building in New Delhi which they claim has obstructed news reporting of the legislature’s proceedings and stifled freedom of the press. The protest was announced by five news organizations, including the Press Club of India and Editors Guild of India, on behalf [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a government ban on firearm accessories known as bump stocks, a device that modifies semi-automatic rifles to fire more rapidly, in Gun Owners of Am., Inc. v. Garland Friday. The Trump Administration outlawed bump stocks after a 2017 shooting in Las Vegas where the rapid-fire [...]

Thousands have blocked roads across Serbia to protest against two newly enacted laws that environmentalists argue will let foreign companies exploit local resources. The Serbian government has offered mineral resource projects to several companies including the China-based Sijin and UK-based Rio Tinto, which environmentalists are concerned will pollute land and water in the country. The [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Armed Taliban fighters broke up a press conference by Afghan lawyers about to start at a Kabul hotel early Sunday morning, arresting several of the lawyers in attendance. A group of four women lawyers and two male lawyers calling themselves the Afghanistan Bar Association Advocates had called the press conference for 10 [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul comments on a new decree on women’s rights issued by the Taliban government.  For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our Correspondent’s name. The text has been [...]

More than 60 civil society organizations Thursday called upon the United Nations to create an independent panel to investigate and report on violations of international law committed in Yemen. The groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, noted that until October of this year, the UN Human Rights Council’s Group of Eminent Experts (GEE) [...]

The head of the United Nations team investigating Islamic State crimes in Iraq Thursday delivered his report to the Security Council, accusing Islamic State (IS) actors of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. Christian Ritscher, Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by the Da’esh/Islamic State [...]

The Council of Europe Friday warned Turkey they would begin taking “infringement proceedings” following the country’s failure to release a philanthropist who has been imprisoned for two years. The European Human Rights Watchdog referred to the 2019 decision. Previously they prompted Tuejry to release Osman Kavala from prison due to a lack of evidence of the [...]

The US Federal Trade Commission Thursday sued to block Nvidia Corp’s $40 billion acquisition of Arm from SoftBank on antitrust grounds. The FTC said the proposed vertical deal would give one of the largest chip companies control over computing technology and designs that competitors rely on to develop their own competing chips. Arm is a [...]